Example sentences for: heinous

How can you use “heinous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Russia is so eager to reassert its authority that it may "gamble away its standing in the democratic world in support of a regime that has committed the most heinous human-rights abuses in modern Europe."

  • Headed by Nobel Peace Prize-winner and anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, the committee grants amnesty to all who confess to political crimes, as long as the crimes are not "disproportionately" heinous.

  • I don't know about Canada, Australia, etc., but in the U.S. this kind of referent usage is considered a heinous illiteracy (by those who consider such matters), and those who wish to appear educated would be wise to avoid it.

  • Montana allows, but does not require, judges to impose chemical castration on offenders who commit rape or incest after even one offense, if it is particularly heinous.

  • Everyone was buzzing about the rough, the dreaded rough, the heinous and monstrous rough, 5 inches officially but sometimes looking more like a dozen--ravenous, insatiable rough, a form of grass so severely impairing a golf swing that it was more like an animal.


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